I’ve recently been asked to share the motivation and vision that emerged around an open source package I’ve been developing over the last year or so. It all started with a bunch of code and an API looking for a problem to solve to be honest! Here I will take you through the journey that led to the Declarative Rollup Summary Tool being born and ended up helping to fill a 6 year old platform feature itch. Relating to the desire to roll up values between records related via standard Lookup fields and not just Master-Detail (where platform support already exists), the related Salesforce Idea has over 20k upvotes btw!

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